Chad Fowler wrote:
> = Announce: RubyGems Release 0.8.4
>
> Hello and Happy New Year! We've now surpassed 10,000 downloads of
> RubyGems and are starting to see a real rhythm of new gems being
> published. Thanks to the efforts of many dedicated Rubyists, 2005
> will be remembered as the year everything took shape in the world of
> ruby package distribution.
>
> We have just released RubyGems 0.8.4. 0.8.4 is a small release, but it
> fixes some fairly major installation issues (thanks Ryan Davis) and
> addresses some speed issues with requires (thanks Eric Hodel, Gavin
> Sinclair, and Jim Weirich).
>
Many thanks!!!
Out of curiosity, how much of RubyGems is leveraging existing existing
work in projects such as Perl's CPAN, Gentoo's Portage, FreeBSD's ports,
NetBSD's pkgsrc, Debian's apt-get, etc...?
Maybe some of the remaining work can leverage work already
completed/tested in other projects. Particularly more complex issues
related to caching, etc.